Database Manager- 100% Remote

About us, but we’ll be brief

We are very proud that FORTUNE named us one of The 100 Best Companies to Work For. In addition, for the last five years we’ve been named in the 100 “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Forbes Magazine.

When you are the leader, it is always urgent, important, and market changing. We think that defines the true “disruptive” business. Join us and create some chaos for the competition.

This is an exciting opportunity to come and work in a company that develops many solutions that involve databases at their core. The candidate should have a strong track record of leadership and influence. This individual will be driving the database support for the company’s online and batch systems which are critical for delivering business results. Candidate must have demonstrated not only an ability to lead and motivate a team of direct reports, but also have an ability to drive change across a broader organization. Candidate will be responsible for team mentoring, training, forecasting and goal setting for the staff.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide leadership and direction to a team of distributed database administrators located in various offices around the globe

• Mentor team members in technical aspects

• Contribute to design and best practice conversations with application developers and product owners

• Lead team transition to agile methodologies and sustainable practice

• Lead transition of database services to cloud methodologies in both on-premise and public cloud environments

• Support and inform database aspects of workload migrations to cloud

• Respond to database issues and inform management. Follow through and establish permanent fixes

• Prioritize the teams’ efforts to meet product and project schedules

• Develop and manage both long and short-term goals for department and staff

• Manage resources to ensure departmental growth and objectives are met

• Help develop and execute the department roadmaps

• Create and enforce policies and standards

• Create, track and update project schedule, communicate project status to the team members and to management

• Resolve complex problems that have implications beyond your own functional domain.

• Apply best practices in database security & database design

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  5+ years of leading high performance database administration team(s)

• 8+ years of experience with distributed database systems

• An overall understanding of database support, including a mastery of a wide range of database architectures for 24/7 transactional and batch systems for on prem and cloud-based Database systems.

• Prior experience with administering high availability large scale distributed and cloud-based database systems is expected.

• Hands on experience of MS SQL Server

• Hands on experience of MongoDB

• Demonstrated software development experience with a focus on database integration

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling in relation to databases, such as Terraform

• Prior experience in cloud migration of databases

• Other open-source databases experience strongly desired

• A passion for delivering great products and experiences to customers

• Experience with data modeling tool a plus

• High energy, confidence, and ambition-someone who can consistently perform at the highest level

• Strong problem solving and creative thinking skills

• Bachelor of Science Degree; preferable in Computer Science

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and and it reflects what we believe. See our DEI work in action!

Please contact us at JobPostingInquiry@experian.com to request the salary range of this position (please include the exact Job Title as it reads above in your email). In addition to a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunity, Experian offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, life and disability insurance, generous paid time off including 12 company paid holidays and parental and family care leave, an employee stock purchase plan and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay range for this position is listed above. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors such as job-related skills, experience and education. This position is also eligible for a variable pay opportunity and a comprehensive benefits package which includes health, life and disability insurance, generous paid time off including paid parental and family care leave, an employee stock purchase plan and a 401(k) plan with a company match.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Our goal is to create a thriving, inclusive and diverse team where people love their work and love working together. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion is essential to our purpose of creating a better tomorrow. We value the uniqueness of every individual and want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. For us, this is The Power of YOU and and it reflects what we believe. See our DEI work in action!

Experian Careers - Creating a better tomorrow together

Find out what its like to work for Experian by clicking here